rum-running

I was pretty sure my mother wouldn’t be happy if I got my little brother arrested for rum-running.

Rum-running was a huge business during Prohibition, and Lythgoe was one of the key players in a network that kept the American drinking public supplied with top-shelf booze.

I was recently reacquainted with the concept of rum-running while reading Mallory O'Meara's excellent book "Girly Drinks."

They were charged with what a reporter called “the greatest rum-running conspiracy” of them all.

And before long, organized crime had spread through Chicago, with rum-running, hijacking, and turf wars between competing gangs.